From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Tue Feb 17 2004 - 06:33:07 PST
>DRAGON SPACE
>
>- China plans to go to the moon on a shoestring
>http://www.spacedaily.com/2004/040214013031.484qrnh8.html
>
>Beijing (AFP) Feb 14, 2004 - China has announced lift-off for the first
>phase of its lunar probe program, revealing what appears to be a shoestring
>budget for its plans to send an unmanned satellite to the moon
>
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>COSMOLOGY
>
>- Keck And Hubble Team Up To Find Farthest Known Galaxy In The Universe
>http://www.spacedaily.com/news/gravity-lense-04b.html
>
>Kamuela - Feb 16, 2004 - A team of astronomers may have discovered the most
>distant galaxy in the universe. Located an estimated 13 billion light-years
>away, the object is being viewed at a time only 750 million years after the
>big bang, when the universe was barely 5 percent of its current age.
>
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>IRON AND ICE
>
>- Comet Ahoy Off Venus
>http://www.spacedaily.com/news/comet-04b.html
>
>Huntsville - Feb 16, 2004 - Comet C/2002 T7 is approaching Earth and
>brightening every day. It's not yet a naked-eye object, but the
>7th-magnitude fuzzball is easy to see through backyard telescopes. The
>comet lies not far from brilliant Venus in the western sky after sunset.
>
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>RINGWORLDS
>
>- Titan Is Ideal Lab For Oceanography, Meteorology
>http://www.spacedaily.com/news/saturn-titan-04b.html
>
>Tucson - Feb 16, 2004 - After a 7-year interplanetary voyage, NASA's
>Cassini spacecraft will reach Saturn this July and begin what promises to
>be one of the most exciting missions in planetary exploration history.
>After years of work, scientists have just completed plans for Cassini's
>observations of Saturn's largest moon, Titan.
>
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>MARSDAILY
>
>- Evocative Debris, Orbital Opportunity
>http://www.spacedaily.com/news/mars-mers-04zzi.html
>
>Moffett Field - Feb 16, 2004 - "As you saw with Spirit," said Tim McElrath
>of the Opportunity's navigation team, "we have a number ways to locate a
>rover. The 44 by 5 miles across, that error ellipse was what we worked for
>six months to define before landing. We were fortunate to have two Deep
>Space Network tracking stations, so we could see two-way Doppler data all
>the way down during descent until the parachute opened. "
>
>- Interplanetary Networking Succeeds With Mars Earth Link Up
>http://www.spacedaily.com/news/mars-general-04h.html
>
>Pasadena - Feb 13, 2004 - A pioneering demonstration of communications
>between NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit and the European Space Agency
>(ESA) Mars Express orbiter succeeded. On February 6, while Mars Express was
>flying over the area Spirit was examining, the orbiter transferred commands
>from Earth to the rover and relayed data from the robotic explorer back to
>Earth.
>
>- Digitally Directed, The Mars Missions
>http://www.spacedaily.com/news/mars-mers-04zzg.html
>
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>IRON AND ICE
>
>- Ulysses Catches Another Comet
>http://www.spacedaily.com/news/comet-04a.html
>
>Paris (ESA) Feb 13, 2004 - Ulysses is not normally associated with the
>study of comets. Nonetheless, the European-built space probe demonstrated
>its ability as a "comet catcher" when it crossed the distant tail of comet
>Hyakutake (C/1996 B2) in 1996.
>
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>ROBO SPACE
>
>- One Order of Snake Legs, Please
>http://www.spacedaily.com/news/life-04o.html
>
>University Park - Feb 11, 2004 - The mystery of where Earth's first snakes
>lived as they were evolving into limbless creatures from their lizard
>ancestors has intrigued scientists for centuries. Now, the first study ever
>to analyze genes from all the living families of lizards has revealed that
>snakes made their debut on the land, not in the ocean.
>
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>COSMOLOGY
>
>- Research On Tiniest Particles Could Have Far-Reaching Effects
>http://www.spacedaily.com/news/physics-04e.html
>
>Seattle - Feb 16, 2004 - Neutrinos are about the tiniest things in
>existence, but developing a greater understanding of what they are and how
>they function is likely to have a huge impact in the next few years. The
>subatomic particles, created in the nuclear furnaces of the sun and other
>stars, have no electrical charge and only recently has it been found that
>they have any mass at all, yet billions pour through each human body every
>second with no discernable effect or interaction.
>
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